Sultan Thafir al-Shehri

Sultan Thafir al-Shehri (died 3 February 2016) was an al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader.

Biography
Sultan Thafir al-Shehri was born in Saudi Arabia, and he became a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), fighting in the Yemeni Civil War. al-Shehri was killed on 3 February 2016 in a United States drone strike in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen.